immersifi
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I think you may have misread that; he said AAC, and not ALAC. You're right though in that ALAC is lossless while AAC, like mp3, is lossy.
Oh my mistake. I do see that now. Saw ALAC in the posts above
To devkerr,
I have really been enjoying CanOpener, not just for the crossfeed function but also for the little touches like the very precise volume control and the dosimeter. I would like to add one suggestion. On my computer I use a crossfeed app/room simulator called TB Isone and it does a great job of applying crossfeed, with the added advantage of a crossfeed compensation circuit that automatically balances the frequency response when crossfeed is applied. The bass boost when applying crossfeed in CanOpener is very noticeable, and I have been trying to EQ it out using the Equalizer and the Pencil EQ. Is it possible to add a crossfeed compensation circuit to CanOpener? If not, do you have any advice to balance the sound using the EQ?
Thanks.
I second this. It is noticeable. Enjoy CanOpener and have started using it with my hd650s.
Apple forces these music player apps to use a clunky file transfer interface within iTunes, under apps once you've connected an iOS device.
You connect the iOS device to the computer, go to the device's apps tab, and scroll down to where they have a list of apps that can accept "documents", but in this case they aren't document files you will transfer, they are music files.
Not the most elegant way of syncing music, and I'm pretty sure I've yet to figure out how to designate multiple files at one time, it only reliably works for me one track at a time which is tedious. However none of this is the fault of CanOpener, nor Onkyo HF Player, Neutron, etc... this is all a stupid Apple imposed restriction on how the file transfer is allowed to occur.
Rumor has it iOS8 theoretically allows for improvement of this process, however no one knows for sure until Apple actually approves an app for iOS8 that allows for a smoother better way of transferring files.
Don't let the above stop you however, CanOpener is a great app and worth the time and trouble regarding the tedious file transfer process, which again, is not their fault nor their likely choice for how it should work. Blame that on Apple.
What about ripping CDs to ALAC (or covert to it) and drag them onto your device/sync normally?
Alac seems to work fine for me within the normal itunes infrastructure. Other formats need to use the file transfer.